From: Gary Wiltshire 

On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 15:57:00 +0100, Adam Flinton
 wrote:

>Alan Cairns wrote:
>> On 24/06/2003 12:29 AM, in article
>> kevffv8dhrnspdfp4kh8jovi40dvg86q5r{at}4ax.com, "Ellen K."
>>  wrote:
>>
>>
>>>ad feminam if against a female?
>>
>>
>> Homo, hominis is "man" in the sense of person. It is
gender neutral. Vir is
>> man in the sense of male person. It would only be necessary to say ad
>> feminam if you wanted to be really specific.
>>
>> English lacks a few important words, thus leading to all the "neutral
>> language" nonsense. We lack a word for man in the
non-specific sense. And we
>> could do with a neutral 3rd person singular pronoun. S/he and they are ugly.
>>
>> Alan
>>
>>
>s/h/it?
>
>Adam

Finnish has two singular third person pronouns.  One is animate and the
other inanimate.

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